Article
Rethinking Wolfenden: Prostitute-Use, Criminal Law, and Remote Harm
Criminal Law Review
(2005)
Abstract
This article critiques the Wolfenden Committee's conclusion that criminalising prostitute-use is inconsistent with the liberal harm principle. Section one evaluates recent empirical evidence challenging Wolfenden's assumptions regarding prostitution. Section two analyses the use of forced-prostitutes as a direct harm offence of rape. Section three presents a new approach to criminalising the conduct of prostitute-users, and sketches a prima facie case in favour of criminalising solicitation for prostitute-use as an abstract endangerment offence.
Keywords
- prostitution,
- harm principle,
- endangerment,
- Wolfenden,
- consent,
- fair imputation
Disciplines
- Criminal Law and
- Law
Publication Date
June, 2005
Citation Information
Michelle Madden Dempsey. "Rethinking Wolfenden: Prostitute-Use, Criminal Law, and Remote Harm" Criminal Law Review (2005) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michelle_dempsey/6/